Innovations are ubiquitous in nowadays societies. Also in the field of spatial planning they became a factor – not least since ever changing and more diversifying wicked problems in urban and regional development call for creative solutions. What can be observed, however, is that planners often do not (at least in initial phases) label their novel approaches as 'novel' or 'innovative' by themselves. This raises the general question of what an innovation actually is or, respectively, of how the term can be understood. In the conference, novel approaches in planning will be conceptualised as social innovations, whereby social innovations are conceived of as novel practices, novel ways of processing or newly created 'products' (i) which are strikingly different compared to previous ones, (ii) which in the perspective of the actors offer 'better' solutions than earlier ones, (iii) which have - to a certain extent - been institutionalised and (iv) which already have spread spatially, i.e. which show translocal mobility. Basically it is hard to say to which extent a novel way of proceeding must be strikingly different from a previous one to be considered as 'innovative'. We must take into account that despite the need of being socially different, an innovation must also to a certain degree connect to something known to meet social acceptance. Therefore, it applies for most of the innovative approaches that they are 'relative', rather than 'absolute' novelties, which means that they are characterised by new combinations of already known things.
While innovation research has long traditions in different disciplines, there is however only little knowledge on the characteristics of innovation processes in the field of spatial planning. In particular, we know little about how innovative approaches emerge in this field, under which conditions they emerge, how they further develop, which types of actors are involved and which strategies they persue, how and under which conditions the approaches become institutionalised, how they spread, etc. It is also an empirical question in how far innovation processes develop similarly or differently in various fields of spatial planning (or in various locations). Not least, it is of interest which theoretical approaches can be used to conceptualise innovation processes in spatial planning. How far must concepts, e.g. on (social) innovations and on policy mobility, be modified in order to adequately describe the empirical processes? Which other theoretical concepts are useful in this research field?
The conference aims at addressing this gap by gathering recognised international researchers from disciplines such as from planning, political science, geography and sociology and by organising both theoretical and empirical discussions. As an initial step, concepts of innovation and of policy mobility will be reflected. Against this background, empirical examples for novel approaches in four core areas of spatial planning will be discussed: urban design, urban redevelopment with a focus on temporary uses, neighbourhood development, and regional development. In concluding discussions within the sessions as well as in a final conclusion at the end of the conference similarities and differences of the examples in the various spatial planning fields will be reflected.


Is it 2009? Wow. Time flies. I was just at a retreat with a few hundred college students from the western US and I am amazed at God's faithfulness and mercy. His love is truly amazing and life-changing. The way that He draws His children to Himself is irresistible.
All of the messages were really good, but one message was about getting rid of your junk. If any of you really know me, you'd know that I'm a packrat. I don't like throwing anything away esp clothes, because the time comes that just after I give it away, I end up needing it for something. It always happens to me but it's okay, I'm learning to get rid of my junk. I tend to hold on to things that I don't need to hold on to anymore. I realized that I'd been hanging on to past relationships and I needed to let go of it all. I needed to truly move on and not allow those thoughts and entanglements to dominate my thoughts. There were things that I secretly held on to that no one else really knew except God. I gave it all to Him because He is the one in control. It was a very freeing experience. I'm so grateful that God cares enough. He cares about the little things that we care about. I don't deserve Him.
That same night, I realized that I couldn't just live the way I've been living. I've become complacent in my relationship with God where I thought I was okay with where I was at. I realized that I can't live this way anymore. I had been satisfied where I was at but something just was stirred up inside me and I couldn't NOT seek God. During the prayer/altar time, I went to the back of the room and just sat in God's presence and cried out to God. I needed to re-surrender my life. I couldn't live in the complacency I'd been living in. It wasn't enough to live that way. I needed God for everything and didn't want to be numb anymore. I didn't want to be so critical and self-righteous about everything. I was sick of my religiousness and wanted God to change me to become more like Him – to yearn for His presence the way that He loves me. I wanted to fall in love with Him again. I wanted His heart for Davis. My love is imperfect but His love is made perfect in my weakness. God did some restoration in my life and I'm so grateful to Him.
I painted this after the conference. At the conference I sat back and listened to the worship. I saw the worship like a whirlwind being swept up to the heavens and God's pleasure was shining through. As the fragrance of worship was being swept up to heaven, the weight of God's love was being poured down on each of the students. It was so beautiful that I wanted to try to get something down on paper last night at DCF large group. It's not nearly what I saw, but it's an abstract representation of what I saw. Blues, Greens, Purples, Pinks, and Yellows (btw I used oil pastels). The last color I used was actually gold which I thought was fitting because GOLD is representative of kingship.


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MBJ: Innovate Memphis' new leader Jessica Lotz takes on shaping a city
This article originally appeared in the Memphis Business Journal.
In many ways, Jessica Lotz is a data-oriented person. Research has played a major role in her career, and she can easily go down a rabbit hole with a spreadsheet, and find it satisfying. Yet she's also keenly aware that data alone is ineffective, and that it should be part of a broader, people-focused collaboration within the community.
Data, Lotz believes, is best used as a flashlight — not a hammer.
"The data is only as good as people's trust in it, and your ability to connect the dots and say, 'Here's how to use it,'" she said. "If we don't collaborate effectively, if we don't really understand the needs and the hopes of everybody we're working with, then it's all for naught. It's got to be about lifting others up, giving them the tools to empower them to make good decisions."
This approach is top of mind for Lotz in her new role as executive director of Innovate Memphis, a job she took after its previous leader, Justin Entzminger, became the innovation practice director for the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University.
Lotz landed with the organization after more than a decade of work with Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS); and now, she'll look to continue Innovate Memphis' work of connecting public and private groups, and improving neighborhoods and communities throughout the city.
For Lotz, it's a fitting position, one that could allow her to both blend her interest in data and people, and make an impact in the Mid-South — where she's spent the bulk of her life.
The right tools
Lotz grew up in Bartlett, and graduated from Bartlett High School. She then attended Rhodes College, and during her time at the institution, helped it create a community center in a lower-income neighborhood of Memphis, a crucial experience.
It's not that Lotz hadn't seen others with fewer resources and opportunities than her before; her parents had always placed an emphasis on community service. But this gave her a closer look at significant economic disparity. She realized there was much she had taken for granted growing up, and she wanted everyone to have access to the resources that could lead to a better life — she just wasn't sure how to make them available.
"I didn't feel like I had the tools right away to figure out what you do about that," Lotz said. "I was seeing very complex problems and systemic inequalities, but I didn't know … what I could do that would be effective there."
To bolster her skillset, Lotz attended Duke University after graduating from Rhodes — where she received a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology — and earned her master's degree in public policy. She also tried her hand at federal work, doing an internship between her two years at Duke in the U.S. Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C.
But for Lotz, federal work was less fulfilling than local work. She didn't see an impact as quickly or as closely, and she found there were things in Memphis that she had taken for granted.
"Here, we've just got a real cohort of invested people [who are] passionate about the city and the communities," she said. "And sometimes you see that in D.C., but many people are understandably federally focused and nationally focused."
She also found the environment in Memphis to be friendlier. In D.C., she would go to bars and parties, and people would immediately ask, "What do you do, where do you work?" And if they didn't find it interesting, they'd be done with her. In Memphis, however, this wasn't the case.
"I can't tell you how many times I've gone somewhere and talked to somebody who's from Memphis for 20 minutes or an hour," she said. "And you can just really bury your soul, share a lot of great things, and have a great time. You may never talk to them again, but it's always been a very authentic and welcoming kind of ethos."
After graduating from Duke, Lotz moved back to Memphis, and took a job with MSCS — then Memphis City Schools — in 2010, as a project manager for the Teacher Effectiveness Initiative. By March 2016, she was the director of research and performance management, a role that had her responsible for program evaluation, continuous improvement coaching, strategic planning, and expanding and scaling data analytics resources.
It's this position that Lotz left to join Innovate Memphis, where she started on Aug. 1.
'A healthy amount of anxiety'
In her new role, Lotz plans on biking to work. She used to walk to her office at MSCS, and always enjoyed it. But the decision to bike goes beyond just her personal preferences — she also wants to "walk the walk and talk the talk," as she takes the helm at an organization that's looked to come up with a variety of creative transit solutions in Memphis.
Transportation and mobility improvement is a key part of Innovate Memphis' work, and the nonprofit is both supporting local and regional partners working on multi-modal transportation choices, and leading the Memphis 3.0 Transit Vision process.
This, however, is just one area of focus for Innovate Memphis, an organization that's played a significant role in shaping the city in recent years.
Other areas include its efforts centered around improving public parks and spaces, and its work with the Memphis Fire Departments' Emergency Medical Service, which has it developing programs to reduce the use of emergency resources for non-emergencies. It's also looked to combat blight, by creating Bluff City Snapshot — which captures property conditions and puts it into Innovate Memphis' data warehouse — and the Memphis Property Hub platform, which provides people and groups with actionable data.
In addition to this, Innovate Memphis is beginning work focused on food security and access, and digital literacy.
There's a lot of work to do, and it's work Lotz is excited to tackle — as a data person, as a people person, and as a Memphian.
"The big growth opportunity that excites me is being totally accountable for the strategy and priorities that we're setting," she said. "There's a healthy amount of anxiety, of excitement … and having to ask myself, 'How am I positioning this team for success?' … I have long been a real advocate of wanting to figure out ways that I can very directly support success in Memphis. So that drives me."

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THE Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health has said people in Chipata District are still consuming the highly potent spirits popularly known as 'Tujilijili'.
Chipata District medical office planner Yolani Banda told an Eastern Province Epidemics Preparedness, Prevention, Control and Management meeting in Chipata on Tuesday that the banned alcohol sachets were still in stock in the district.
Mr Banda suspected that the spirits were coming from Malawi, where they were still manufacturing them.
"Some people in most parts of town are accessing the beer and are taking it knowing that it is illegal. We suspect that 'Tujilijili' are coming from Malawi," he said.
Chipata District Commissioner Kalunga Zulu said he was aware that some traders have stocks of the banned alcohol.
Mr Zulu said there was need to engage the Malawian authorities in order to arrest the situation.
"I am aware that 'Tujilijili' are still in stock in the district and of late I have seen the empty plastics sachets," he said.
Mr Zulu suspected that people who were trading in the banned sachets, were using alternative routes known as Zalewa to smuggle them into the country.
He appealed to the officers at Mwami Border post to be alert on the matter.
In 2012, the Zambian Government banned the manufacture and sale of the spirits usually distributed in sachets and commonly known as 'Tujilijili'.


Welcome to our brand new South West Regional News page and a chance to celebrate what we've achieved with your help in the last few months.
Zoe Lavery from Exeter is hoping to break a record when she enters the Swansea Half Marathon in June.
On Saturday, 23 June, Zoe, 27, will be joining a team of Diabetes UK runners in a bid to break the world record for the largest number of people with Type 1 diabetes to run a half marathon.
An award-winning garden designer from Wiltshire has helped create the first ever show garden in support of Diabetes UK.
Katherine Hathaway, who runs Larkhall Studios garden design practice in Chippenham, was inspired to create The Habit of Living Garden for the 2019 RHS Malvern Spring Festival, after supporting her father, who had Type 2 diabetes.
A dynamic Cornwall diabetes group is looking for new members who want to learn more about diabetes and share that knowledge with others.
A monthly support group in Trelawney Community Hub in Camborne, coffee mornings in a doctor's surgery in St Ives and conducting a survey in supermarkets into care for people with diabetes all feature on our West Cornwall Group's packed programme this year.
"Local group helped turn the tide on my Type 2 diabetes"
When Mike Deane, 75, was diagnosed with the condition 18 years ago, it was a wake-up call. He changed his lifestyle, taking up walking, giving up smoking and eating more healthily.
The Living with Diabetes day at the Best Western Hotel Rembrandt will offer people the chance to attend workshops with a diabetes specialist nurse, podiatrist and dietitian, get practical up-to-date information and ask questions.
We recently mounted a campaign in Dorset to call for an end to the postcode lottery affecting Flash Glucose Monitoring.
It played a key role in a nationwide Diabetes UK initiative pressing for this painless alternative to finger-prick testing to be made available on prescription across all areas of the country.
A woman from Coleford in Gloucestershire ran the Cardiff Half Marathon this October in aid of Diabetes UK.
Becca Purvis, 24, took up the challenge of running the Cardiff Half Marathon in October after being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes just months earlier in January.
In the end, Becca raised £1,203, smashing the target of £1,000 she set herself.
Former England defender and Diabetes UK supporter Gary Mabbutt MBE received an honorary degree from the University of Bath this summer.
The honorary Doctor of Health degree was awarded in recognition of Gary's distinguished footballing career and tireless campaigning to raise awareness of diabetes.
Get set – break records!
Anthony Fisher was one of a team of 60 runners with the condition to complete this year's Swansea Half Marathon, helping us into the record books for the most number of people with Type 1 diabetes to run a half marathon.


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(24974) Macúch, denumire internațională (24974) Macuch, este un asteroid din centura principală de asteroizi.

Descriere
24974 Macúch este un asteroid din centura principală de asteroizi. A fost descoperit pe  la Modra de Peter Kolény și Leonard Kornoš. Asteroidul prezintă o orbită caracterizată de o semiaxă mare de 2,20 ua, o excentricitate de 0,23 și o înclinație de 6,7° în raport cu ecliptica.

Vezi și
 Lista planetelor minore: 24001-25000
 Centura de asteroizi

Referințe

Obiecte astronomice descoperite în 1998
Centura de asteroizi

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MeFi Music
rock and/or roll
I've Got A Feeling That I'm Everything I Never Wanted To Be
p p powerpoptastic innit.....sort of
I know elements of this are dog rough (some of the backing vox for e.g. are out of tune) but I kinda like it as it is, and it's not the sort of track that should be too polished - quite the opposite.
Telecaster up the middle and solo, Stratocaster in the left channel, 335 in the right.
One of my better lyrics. Almost called the track "Hall Of Mirrors" because the meaning of the words keeps mutating and changing. It was fun to write after I latched onto that idea. A strange song about identity crisis.
i've got a feeling that i am everything i never wanted to be.
empty thing.
i've got a feeling that i'm not anything i ever wanted to be.
every thing i always wanted was to be.
what did i say? (you never asked me)
what did i want? (you never knew)
what did i do? (you'll never know)
what did i take? (you'll never grow)
i've got a feeling that i am anything.
i never wanted to be everything.
i've got me reeling 'cause i'm not any thing i ever wanted to see.
Every thing i never wanted was to be.
where did i live? (you never knew me)
what did i give? (you never knew)
who did i love? (you'll never know)
who was above? (you'll never know)
i've got a feeling that i'm not anything.
i never wanted to be.
endless thing.
i'm on the ceiling and i'm not anything i ever wanted to see.
everything i always wanted was to be.
what did i want? (you'll never know)
who did i love?
who was above?
i've got a feeling that i am everything.
i never wanted to be ennui.
i've got me dreaming and i'm not anything i ever wanted.
to be energy.
i've got a feeling that i'm not any thing i never wanted to be.
everything i wanted was to be.
posted by MajorDundee (16 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
Damn, this is pretty great. I like those just-there falsetto backups.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 12:41 AM on November 13, 2010
Thanks for that Karlos.
What I'm trying to do with stuff like this is to test some of my own perceptions, standards and boundaries. I get quite a lot of comments about my stuff being "smooth" or "well produced/mixed" and gentle criticism about it being "too musicianly" or "complicated". These are nice things to hear and MeFites are generally kindly and well-meaning souls, but I guess I want to experiment with what listeners actually perceive as important and unimportant, critical and uncritical. What do people really hear in a track?? What do they filter out?? Why?? Hence I deliberately left things in this mix of a fairly average track (so I'm not fucking up something I think is really good) that normally I wouldn't allow to be "released" just to see if anyone said "Christ, those backing vocals suck the big one and totally ruin the track". Intriguing...
posted by MajorDundee at 2:10 AM on November 13, 2010
I'd like to hear some nice garage-y organ on this, actually.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 1:52 PM on November 13, 2010
The high guitar notes around 1:58 really surprised me, I found them interesting. I think they were my favorite part of this.
For me, this song lives in a strange in-between place. The verses have that sort of catchy, repetitive almost taunting kind of melody that I associate with certain idiosyncratic 80's songs. Like "Video Killed The Radio Star" (alright, '79) or "I Want Candy" (alright, it's way older, but it was a cover hit in the '80s). But the chorus somehow comes across as more abstract to me. Almost like you had a more predictable poppy hook vocal melody there, then recorded harmonizing vocals, then took out the original vox and left the harmonizing vocals as the lead.
Instrumentally, I would expect it to either get much dirtier/grungier with more bass and louder and sloppier drums, OR have more sort of "annoying" (not in a bad way) percussive synth type sounds woven in, like, I don't know, that weird solo from "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".
This may well be a complicated way of repeating the comments you get about your stuff being "smooth" -- ie, my ears sort of want this to have more grit or textural quirk of some kind. My own songs don't really have that, but there's something about your songwriting here that makes me sort of want it.
I'm not reacting to anything being out of tune, which you can interpret in two ways. 1) It's not a big deal, don't worry about it. And/or 2) Ignore my admittedly semi-bizarre comments, my ears lack the musicality you display in everything you post on here. This track included.
posted by edlundart at 9:37 PM on November 13, 2010
No - I completely agree with all of that edlundart. The problem is that what is needed here goes beyond my meagre resources. This needs a real studio, real drums, real bass, a real singer, real engineer and a real producer. In other words it's a demo. Quite a good one, and one that does the job of a demo, but that's all it is or will ever be. On my own I know I'm not going to be able to take any of my output to that next level (I'm not sure why I'd bother anyway frankly). That's partly why, with more or less all of the things I upload here and elsewhere, I rarely if ever do go back to them and try again. Obviously, if someone else hears something of mine and wants to do something with it - be my guest.
I expect that all sounds very strange - almost like a I don't really care. And I sort of don't really in some ways, and I do in others. As a musician with what is at base a jazz sensibility and value system, the real deep interest and fascination for me is in the moment of creation. When that's gone, a lot of the interest has gone for me too. That's why going back over a demo is to me like trying to breathe life into a corpse. I know it's a really weird attitude. But there it is.
Hey, man, I totally agree! About breathing life into a corpse that is. I have never revisited a song, not even my ,very few, good ones. I always just apply whatever I learned to the next one.
This song is good man, I'm on my third listen. Here's my take: this kicks ass. It's an 8 or 9 out of 10. I've always wondered if I'm being helpful at all by giving my visceral reactions instead of more technical responses. So, that said, sure I think it would be pretty easy for you to just dirty up things a bit. But like I said, it may not really be important for this song, maybe more of just a consideration for your next or some other time.
I'm wondering now though, how much effort or what might really go into dirtying something up. For example, I use a triton le for drums. It sucks, but I can record it a little too high, dirty and grumbly, and then bring it back down in the mix so that it's dirty but contained? Honestly, I'm sure you know better than I do! hahahah!
posted by snsranch at 3:06 PM on November 14, 2010
I use the same keyboard as you sns. The drums on this were done live with me banging the keyboard (I'm sure I'm going to break it one of these days - it takes one hell of a pounding, and I wind up with really sore fingers). I kind of hold by what I said earlier really. If you want to go to the next level, that ain't gonna happen without some real live stuff going down and tech people who know what they're doing. So, I'm not going to bother even trying to make this kind of stuff any better on my own - because I think this is sonically about as good as I can get without going to that next level. And I ain't got the cash or really the reason to do that. You know - so I end up with a really top-class recording. So what??
Oh and your visceral reactions are just as valid (I think a lot more valid) than the techie ones sns. Keep 'em comin' man!!
I definitely hear you about not often wanting to revisit mixes and stuff. I hardly ever do that myself, for mostly the same reasons you cite -- and I probably have more reasons to redo things than you do.
But I think you're kind of selling youself short on the issue of what you can do with your meagre resources. Or, it's not that you're selling yourself short, but -- in reference to the excellent music talk thread you started, which inspired my comment here -- you may be over-focusing on some of the technical details. Sure, it's true, there are limitations to how realistic you can make a keyboard-triggered drum set sound, etc. But my comments were less about that kind of technical quality issue and more about the nature of the sounds chosen, the composition and arrangement decisions, etc. It's totally possible, likely even, that you'd disagree with any tweaks to those things that I'd prefer, and you're the one who knows best what your stuff should sound like.
But my point is basically this: I don't think that this song or any other necessarily needs a real studio, a real engineer, a real producer. I understand that it can sound "better" that way, and that it might be preferable, but I think the value that your songs have is determined much more by your artistic choices than by what room it was recorded in, or the year the guitar you played was made, or what drum sound you're using.
so I end up with a really top-class recording. So what??
Exactly. And that's the message I got from you in the music talk thread, too. But I feel like that clashes a bit with this:
The problem is that what is needed here goes beyond my meagre resources. This needs a real studio, real drums, real bass, a real singer, real engineer and a real producer.
I think it can be hard, especially for an accomplished musician and instrumentalist such as yourself, to focus some of your ambitions away from the technical (particulars surrounding guitar tone, exact pitch and timing, perfect levels) and toward... I don't know, the emotional? I absolutely believe that you have all the skills and resources needed to create the best recording in the history of music. I believe that even I do. We're not likely to fulfill our slight promise, but we have a tiny tiny shot at it. But this can only be true if we define "recording" not in technical measures, but as a document of an artistic idea.
You're brimming with those.
Great power pop. It gets so melodic, I relate to that extra step.
posted by tunewell at 1:55 AM on November 17, 2010
I just wanted to chime in and say you've got some of the cleanest, most professional sounding recording/production quality on MeFi.
Another hit.
posted by ORthey at 10:46 AM on November 17, 2010
As usual, endlundart, your comments are deeply considered (and considerate) and well made. But I think you're perhaps misinterpreting what I'm saying (in my infuriatingly contradictory way!).
I've made records "the right way" in the past. And the truth is that it's not about being technically better records per se than I can produce myself, although that is invariably a by-product of doing a "proper job". What it's about is the interaction between a bunch of people who are good at what they do whether that be writing, playing, taking care of technicalities or what have you. The chemistry in what I call a "real" studio is at base about synergy and a vibe and..well...people. Unless you're deliberately going for a solo thing - you know, acoustic guitar or piano and vocal - you really will struggle to create a band-style vibe on your own. Because it's not about technical perfection or good individual sounds or great tunes or things like that alone (although they're all necessary), it's the "x" factor created by people bouncing off each other. It's about the banter and the cameraderie and maybe getting drunk together and general bonding. Even the zeitgeist and weather and...Christ....loads of other things go to creating a good record or document as you very nicely put it. That interaction - that witches brew of eye of newt and wing of bat and other stuff - creates a performance. And it's the definitive performance of a song that you're trying to capture on a record above everything else.
Having said that, I need to explain what I mean by the "so what?" comment. The reason I say that is because, having spent the cash to capture a good performance, what does one do with it? The kind of material I can produce is simply not a commercial proposition. Add to that that it's made by a middle-aged, short, bald guy who can't dance and isn't pretty....well......I wouldn't take a risk on that if someone presented me with it. Financial suicide. So, in the end, spending all that cash would culminate at best in a kind of rather pathetic vanity publishing - you know, six boxes of CDs gather dust in the garage. In the end I think that you have to acknowledge your limits and know that what you can produce alone isn't as good as it can possibly be, but is as good as it can possibly be within realistic current (common-sense) limitations.
posted by MajorDundee at 12:07 PM on November 17, 2010
I have a few points, Major.
First off, this is a great song and it deserves the best production you can muster, for whatever value of 'best' lights yer candle.
Second, while you can never quite get the live vibe going on your own, there are a few things you can do that really help. Number one (I find) is just giving it your all when you're tracking. It's really easy on your own to concentrate on technical accuracy rather than feel and not go absolutely balls out on the takes, but it makes a huge difference, even if you end up somewhat sloppy.
Third, and feel free to take this for whatever it's worth, you have terrific skills but I think you could do quite a lot better with the rhythm section. I like your drum programming a lot but the sounds are very sterile and it feels over-quantized. I would really look into some live sounding drum samples if you can figure out a way of doing that... I love the Native Instruments Abbey Road 60s set but there are lots out there. Second, the bass is mixed very low and it doesn't really sound like a bass player to me. If you're not using a real bass I'd suggest getting hold of a cheapo Squier P-Bass or something, and if you are maybe try something a bit less functional and more dick-waving.
(One of the things I do when I'm tracking is really think myself into the role of bass player or keyboard player or singer or guitarist, and try to record from that perspective, rather than always keeping my singer/songwriter/producer hat on).
Finally, I think the key is to make a virtue of working alone. I always hated going into expensive studios with a band because it *never* sounded right to me and I can get much closer to the sound in my head using my Mac and a few plugins and cheap mics.
On the 'what do you do with it' front, I'm totally with you, and I don't have a solution.
posted by unSane at 1:39 PM on November 17, 2010
PS Maybe this is a track you could use that MeFiMu producer/mixer on?
Thanks for the unSane, I hear what you say. I don't agree with all of it - but that's by the by. Excellent idea to put this up for the remix/production challenge. Cheers mate.
posted by MajorDundee at 11:27 AM on November 18, 2010
MajorDundee, thanks for clarifying. I think we've taken the topic as far as it can usefully go, but just wanted to say I do get your points about the chemistry in the studio between different people. I can understand missing that. And, thanks for another good "chat."
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TAXES ARE WHAT WE PAY FOR A CIVILIZED SOCIETY
Right now on Capitol Hill, there's a pitched battle going on over changes to those taxes we pay, and at the moment there are more questions than answers about what reform will look like when the dust settles. Who will pay more? Who will pay less? What deductions will remain? Lobbyists for the housing industry are fighting to save deductions for mortgage interest and property tax. Many lawmakers from high tax states, including New Jersey and New York, are working to preserve the deductions for state and local taxes. And the nonprofit sector is concerned about what will happen to charitable contributions. The fear isn't so much that the deduction itself will go away. Rather, if the tax code is changed so that far more taxpayers take the standard deduction instead of itemizing, they will no longer have the added incentive of a charitable tax deduction to consider when making a donation.
A lot still has to happen before we know what the final changes will look like. The House needs to pass its bill, and the Senate has to approve its plan, then the two must be reconciled.
In the meantime, we're keeping up with the news and analysis, especially as the process relates to charities. The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a great source of updates on a national level, and the Center for Nonprofits has its finger on the pulse for New Jersey organizations in particular. The NonProfit Times is another good place to find up-to-date information on the topic.
Incidentally, the Center for Nonprofits is holding its annual nonprofit conference on Wednesday, December 6th, and we look forward to being there and are proud to be sponsors.
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One of the most bewildering experiences for a person going through the wonderful early blush of a new love interest or the birth of a child is watching his or her avian companion go berserk over the new arrival. Sadly, because many people do not realize that most cases of avian jealousy can be avoided or altered, this often leads to the immediate or eventual relocation of the bird.
An avian behavior consultant is often contacted immediately, or very soon after, the introduction of another human or animal into the bird's household because of negative changes in the bird's behavior. This may result in aggressive targeting of the newcomer, and even objects owned or regularly used by that individual may be targeted. Some birds may be more inwardly focused and target themselves, mutilating their feathers, bird cages or toys. Other birds may become noisy or less manageable.
Any individual — especially one who takes a considerable amount of the bird's favorite person's time and attention — may be both the trigger and the focus of a bird's jealousy. It is the nature of most hookbills to have a companion, and its expectation would be that the companion would remain loyal to it, most of the time. When a bird's human companion suddenly begins to focus his attention on another animal or human, the bird may be shocked and may try to drive away the opposition by being aggressive to that individual.
Set clear boundaries to lessen the occurrence of problem behaviors, upon which a modification program can take hold where there are existing problems. This is accomplished by assuring that the bird is always in a situation where it feels secure and where it understands its position within the family. Encourage the bird to entertain itself and to not depend upon people as its sole entertainment. Teach the bird which behaviors are acceptable and which are not.
A bird in this type of environment knows that it is loved, protected and respected. It receives the food, housing, rest and loving, playful interactions that keep it physically healthy and emotionally well adjusted. It understands what it is, and is not, permitted to do.
Teach the bird to play with toys inside its cage and on a play gym, on the sofa, the floor or a bed. Set perimeters by using a sheet or old blanket to represent them. They can be folded or unfolded to give the bird an area that is permissible to play on when the bird is on a large, flat area. This discourages the acquisition and protection of other territory. The bird will perceive itself as playing on your territory (the sheet) instead of its own.
Some people attempt to make their birds feel secure by maintaining a strict schedule. This often creates a bird with a relatively rigid personality, intolerant of change. Some of these birds become upset if, for example, its dinner is not provided by a particular time, configuration or individual. One umbrella cockatoo began to destroy its feathers whenever its owner did not return home from work within 30 minutes.
Some people devote their entire private home lives to their avian friends and then promptly demote them to secondary status when a new romance or other interest arises. Not only is this emotionally unhealthy for all parties involved, it is an extremely cruel thing to do to the bird. It has absolutely no idea that things would ever change and may become extremely depressed or angry when things, especially if another individual is involved.
If the bird sees that people visit the home, it realizes that it is not the sole focus of its person's life. Favorite treats may be offered by family members and friends. Even if the bird does not want anyone other than its person handling it, company — especially people who frequently compliment the bird and generously dole out goodies — can be an interesting and welcome change. The bird's social horizons and life focus will be broadened, and it will be emotionally healthier.
The bird's favorite person plays an important part in the socializing process. Whenever the bird accepts food, cage cleaning or any kind of interaction with another person, even just sitting comfortably while people are visiting in the area near its cage or play gym, it will accept these situations more readily if its favorite person praises it while these events take place.
When praising, make eye contact, and use exaggerated vocal inflections. Be clear regarding the reason for your praise, for example: "Ricky, you are such a good boy" or, "Thank you Ricky, for being such a good boy and letting John feed you a peanut." It's that simple to reinforce good behavior.
An emotionally healthy bird is one that is flexible. It understands that more than one family member may provide food, clean its cage or offer entertainment. The bird also knows that no new person is going to try to handle it if it declines the interaction. Although it may prefer the company of or being handled by a particular person, it is comfortable in the presence of other family members and familiar visitors. Birds that comfortably experience varied schedules, people and locations are usually extremely tolerant of change.
Avoid the development of negative behavior whenever possible. This is especially true of birds that like to climb down and bite the objects of their wrath. Until the bird is accustomed to someone else getting attention, be sure that it is locked inside its cage. It may scream or throw toys or food around, but it will not be able to inflict physical injury. Encourage the newcomer to feed treats to your bird while it is inside its cage and unable to fly or to hop off and attack that person. Be sure to praise your bird profusely when it accepts the treats.
Learn your bird's body language. Some may become completely wound up in the presence of others and may bite indiscriminately. Signs differ according to species and the individual. For example, for Amazon owners, if your bird is strutting around with its tail feathers fanned, chattering or calling loudly and its pupils are pinning, it is more likely to bite everyone who comes near — even you. Avoid getting yourself into that position. Simply leave the bird alone until it calms down.
If the bird's cage or play gym needs to be moved after the arrival of a new family member, do so well in advance of the new arrival, thus giving the bird time to acclimate. If the anticipated arrival is an infant, for example, set up its crib and all its furniture in advance. Wrap a doll in blankets, and place it inside the crib.
For the first few times, pick up the bird and take it to the new crib and doll. Talk to the bird, and tell it how wonderful it is. Rearrange the doll's blanket while holding the bird. Later, pick up the doll occasionally, holding and talking to it in sight of the bird. Then, talk to the bird, praising it, while still holding the doll, making the bird part of the entire evolving experience.
If the new arrival is an adult human or another animal, place all needed furniture or equipment in their locations and repeat the exercise above. Explain what is going to happen to the bird, using cheerful and loving tones. Make the idea of a new person or animal an exciting and enjoyable experience in which the bird is an integral part. If the new person visits frequently in anticipation of moving in, allow the bird to come out on a perch or play gym to join you when eating, conversing or watching television. The bird's favorite person, or people, as well as the newcomer, must praise it profusely, because many birds do not seem to care what anyone other than their owners think.
If the new family member is another bird, don't wait until its arrival to change cages or cage location. If a new cage is being purchased for the existing bird or if its cage is to be relocated because of the newcomer, do so in advance of the new bird's arrival. Allow the existing bird to acclimate. If the old cage is going to be used for the new bird, clean if necessary, and introduce it into the area where the new bird will be kept. Purchase new toys for both birds, allowing the existing bird to keep its old toys, as well.
Birds are visual by nature, and nothing can provoke a jealous reaction faster than when a bird's person walks into the room holding a strange bird, baby, animal or cuddling a new romantic interest. If, however, the bird is being held affectionately by its favorite person the first time it lays eyes on the newcomer, and its person tells the new arrival (even if it is an infant or animal) that the bird is loved very much and that it is a very important family member, the introduction often flows quite smoothly. After all, the bird is obviously greatly loved, and the new arrival is obviously secondary to it and not much of a threat.
What should you do if your bird has already begun chasing your beloved around the house, screeches loudly when that person enters the room or takes aggressive action if the person does something so blatantly "volatile" as hugging or kissing you? Clarify the situation. Before deciding what kind of program to develop, differentiate whether the bird is behaving out of jealousy or if it is merely being territorial.
In the case of jealousy, the relationship of the bird and its primary person must be considered. As with any other problem behavior, it is not enough to simply address the problem without first addressing the triggers. Make sure some of the aforementioned criteria are established, giving the bird clear boundaries and comfortable socialization. If the bird tries to attack the focus of its jealousy, becomes noisy upon seeing that individual, begins to mutilate feathers or displays any other negative behavior, the response of the bird's favorite person is integral to changing its behavior.
First, do not reinforce the bird's reaction. If you talk to the bird to scold or to reassure it, you have just "trained" it to continue the behavior. If you immediately stop hugging your significant other in response to the bird's reaction, you have also reinforced its behavior. The same goes for hugging, scratching, picking it up, offering treats or any other type of interaction between you and the bird. The best thing to do, if possible, is to ignore your feathered companion until it calms down. If you are in the middle of a hug, continue to do so until the bird relaxes. If it doesn't, simply leave the room, returning when the bird calms down.
Include your bird in activities with the new family member, placing its cage or gym near you while you interact. Look at the bird, talk to it, smile at it and, above all, praise it — even if it's just standing there doing nothing in particular. This reinforces the bird's positive behavior, especially in relationship to its new "competition," while it lessens its feelings of jealousy.
What if your bird never warms up to the newcomer? The answer might surprise you. Birds are not dogs and cannot be expected to love or to accept handling by everyone; however, with appropriate and sensitive interaction, orchestrated by their favorite people, there is no reason why they cannot accept newcomers into the household.
The new relationships may take many forms, from loving acceptance to a relatively constant state of the "cold shoulder." It is not necessary for a bird to love all of the individuals its person loves. It is only necessary that it cohabitates with them without exhibiting problem behavior.
It is usually people who create the situations that lead to avian behavior problems and, unfortunately, it is human nature to focus on them and ignore the many attributes that still exist. By teaching our birds to be flexible, sociable and well-rounded, we prepare them for life as it really is and ensure our ability to offer them a lifetime of love, regardless of whether or not they love everyone we love. Those of us who have people who love us unconditionally and who respect and accept our devotion to our avian companions, regardless of how the bird feels about them, are among the most fortunate of all individuals.
Birds are wonderful and charming companions. We must focus on their positive aspects and love them for what they are — and not for what we want them to be. With some preparation and good luck, there is no reason why they cannot continue their lives with us, regardless of who, or what, may come into our lives in the future. That's what family is all about, isn't it?


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class CreateTaxons < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :taxons do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.text :path
      t.string :url
      t.integer :taxonomy_id
      # for acts as set
      t.integer :parent_id, :lft, :rgt, :root_id
      t.timestamps
    end

    add_index :taxons, :name, :unique => true
    add_index :taxons, :path, :unique => true
    add_index :taxons, :url, :unique => true
    add_index :taxons, :taxonomy_id
    add_index :taxons, :parent_id
    add_index :taxons, :lft
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Q: Where to put the try statement in python 1I'm learning python and finding it difficult to undestand where to place the try and except statement
def divide (n1, n2):
    try:
        d = n1/n2
    except :
        print("Wrong")

Then divide (10,0) produces the correct "Wrong"
However if i put the try at the top of the function, it doesn't work
try:
    def divide (n1, n2):
        d = n1/n2
except :
        print("Wrong")

Then divide(10,0) produces the regular traceback error.
Why doesn't the except work in the second example?

A: It's because if you don't run the function in the try-except section, it always goes through, since a function will always work without being called, if you call it inside the try-except, it will work:
try:
    def divide (n1, n2):
        d = n1/n2
    print(divide(0,0))
except :
    print("Wrong")

It will give:
Wrong

But of all solutions, you #1 solution is the best.

A: Your second try-catch only includes how you define the function, and your def has no exception to raise. And if you call this somewhere: divide(10, 0), it's already outside of try-catch block.

A: The first example is the right way to use it.
In the second one, you are defining the function:
    def divide (n1, n2):
        d = n1/n2

So, when you call it, the try statement is not even executed. The try and except statements are outside the scope, and just useless in the way you want to use them. In this example, the "Wrong" output would be printed just if, when reaching the try, the devide function could not be defined, which is not the case
Here you will find the documentation of how to handle errors and exceptions in Python.

A: As the function definition is in the try... except block and not the function call. And always the function definition will not get executed unless it's called (function call should always be in try...except). Hence the second code you mentioned is not efficient enough to catch the exception.
Below piece of code would also work :
def divide (n1, n2):
    d = n1/n2

try:
    divide(12, 0)
except:
    print("Wrong")

A: in python Try Except  will be execute or run if what your execute result error. which is in your example 2 you use def(fucntion) and def in python will not be execute before there call, so that why the except don't work

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Albendazole Therapy for Neurocysticercosis
Oscar H. Del Brutto, MD
Department of Neurology Hospital Luis Vernaza PO Box 3734 Guayaquil, Ecuador
Arch Neurol. 1990;47(12):1278. doi:10.1001/archneur.1990.00530120018003
To the Editor. —I have read with interest the article by Alarcón et al,1 as it showed that the length of albendazole therapy for parenchymal brain cysticercosis could be considerably shortened without lessening its efficacy. The authors did not state, however, how the 3-day course of albendazole treatment was chosen. Was it chosen on an empirical basis? If so, a larger number of patients was needed to support their findings.Albendazole is an imidazole with intense antiparasitic properties that has largely replaced praziquantel as the drug of choice for parenchymal brain cysticercosis.2-4 The initial length of 30 days of albendazole therapy for neurocysticercosis5 was settled according to that previously used for the treatment of human hydatidosis.6 When treating patients with cysticercosis, however, two observations suggested that the therapeutic effect of the drug occurred far before the full course of 30 days was completed: first, most patients
Del Brutto OH. Albendazole Therapy for Neurocysticercosis. Arch Neurol. 1990;47(12):1278. doi:10.1001/archneur.1990.00530120018003


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Michael R. Mulders of Essexville joined the Michigan Farm Bureau (MFB) Board of Directors in December 2006 when he was elected District 8 Director. The district represents Farm Bureau members in Bay, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland and Saginaw counties.
Mulders farmed with his father while attending Garber High School and studying mechanical engineering at Saginaw Valley State University. The fourth-generation farmer and his family operate a 600-acre produce and cash crop farm in Bay County.
The farm produces sugar beets, soybeans, wheat and corn, as well as fresh market produce. The produce is sold wholesale throughout the state.
Mulders has been an active Farm Bureau member at both the county and state levels. He served on the Bay County Farm Bureau Board of Directors for six years, including three spent as president. His county-level involvement also includes serving on and/or chairing a number of committees, including the Executive, Policy Development, Candidate Evaluation, Land Use, Local Affairs, State and National Affairs, Membership and Investment committees.
At the state level, Mulders has chaired the MFB Study Committee and Fruit and Vegetable Advisory Committee. He's also vice chaired the MFB Policy Development and Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Advisory committees. At the national level, Mulders has chaired the American Farm Bureau Federation's Sugar Advisory Committee.
Mulders' past Farm Bureau accomplishments also include winning the prestigious MFB Farmer Idea Exchange and Young Farmer Achievement Awards.
Outside of Farm Bureau, Mulders serves on many boards, including nine years on the Hampton Township Planning Commission. He's also served on the Michigan Sugar Co. Board of Directors. Mulders and his family are members of St. Jude Thadius Catholic Church.


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FAO Article: How South-South Cooperation Helps Ensure Food Security for Family Farmers
By naveeda October 5, 2020 News, UN Day for SSC 2020
Home » FAO Article: How South-South Cooperation Helps Ensure Food Security for Family Farmers
A higher-yield rice variety moves Madagascar further on the path to self-sufficiency: How South-South Cooperation helps ensure food security for family farmers
11/09/2020 – Madagascar has a rich history of rice cultivation. Outside of Asia, Madagascar has the longest tradition of rice production, and this staple is cultivated in almost all districts of the country. For the Malagasy people, rice is a core part of their diet: many families eat it three times a day, and most of it is homegrown. On special occasions, Ranonapango may be served – a traditional drink made from toasted rice and boiling water.
In Madagascar, however, people earn less than US 1.90 per day on average, and the Malagasy population is severely affected by food insecurity, including food shortages. Domestic production of rice, for example, still does not meet the needs of the island, and the country has to rely heavily on imported rice to help ensure national food security.
Hopefully, not for much longer however: Madagascar has set itself the goal of being rice self-sufficient by the end of 2020.
Cooperation, cooperation, cooperation
To work towards this, an FAO South-South Cooperation project began in late 2019 between China and Madagascar. Chinese experts on rice production came to Madagascar to introduce a greater-yielding type of rice, as well as to provide training to farmers on how to grow and harvest it.
The new kind of rice seeds are better suited to the Malagasy subtropical climate, which consists of a hot and rainy season between November and the end of March and a cooler dry season from May to October. This Weichu rice variety has been especially developed to fit the climatic and soil conditions of Madagascar.
Left/Top: Cecile, a rice producer and beneficiary of the project, stands proudly in her rice field. ©FAO/Mijoro Right/Bottom: Modeste has always been interested in new farming techniques and enthusiastically joined the FAO project, hoping to increase the yield from his rice fields. ©FAO/ Andrianarijaona Rivoharilala
Modeste Rabenarivo is a 54-year-old rice farmer from Mahitsy in central Madagascar, where he has a 3000 square metre plot of land. He has always been very interested in new farming techniques and methods, and when the FAO project began nearby, the idea of growing a new variety of rice piqued his interest.
"As soon as I learned that [the rice] could yield eight, nine or ten tonnes per hectare, I immediately joined the project," Modeste says.
Across three areas of the island, 124 rice farmers took part in the project, working together with a Chinese expert team, to benefit from both theoretical and field training on rice cultivation. So far, the participants are happy with the results.
"What reassures me about this rice," Modeste continues, "is that the two-month-old plants already have more than six leaves, so they're already growing well."
"After training on seed preparation, as well as nursery management like water control, fertilizer supply and use of products against insects, critters and weeds, I had the idea of transplanting earlier to see the potential of this rice. I am motivated to adopt this variety," Modeste enthuses.
To date, the harvest has yielded approximately 8.45 tonnes on average per hectare compared to the 2.8 tonnes per hectare that was harvested before the project. Alain Randrianarivelo, who has farmed rice for more than 20 years, says, "I think this new variety of rice is the future of our agriculture. The yield obtained is breathtaking."
The South-South project in Madagascar aims to train at least 1 000 rice farmers, in order to bring the average rice yield up from 2.8 tonnes per hectare to between 8 and 12 tonnes, helping make Madagascar self-sufficient in meeting domestic demand. ©FAO/K. Chen
Self-sufficiency – for 2020 and after
The South-South project is not just concentrated on the three pilot areas, it also aims to have a long-term effect on rice-growing in Madagascar in general. To this end, technicians from Madagascar's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishery have also taken part in the training, in order to implement the approach in other areas of the country. Nearly 70 managers and technicians from the Regional Directorate of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries also followed these training courses in the field in order to better disseminate the techniques. The project aims to train at least 1 000 farmers, in order to bring the average rice yield up from 2.8 tonnes per hectare to between 8 and 12 tonnes.
Government minister Lucien Ranarivelo is positive about the South-South collaboration with China, stating: "This technology is widely used in several countries and is one of the conditions that has allowed China to be self-sufficient in food. The collaboration affects the technical aspects of seed production in Madagascar; training is provided, and we apply this training and use the seeds directly."
For Modeste, an increased production from his rice fields would mean the world. As a father of three, it would mean being able to send his children to school, a feat not all farmers can manage. It also means that in the long run, he can save some money and do less strenuous activities for his retirement.
For Madagascar as a country, this new variety will allow it to be self-sufficient by significantly reducing the level of rice imports.
In the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the positive effects will play an even more important role: food production self-sufficiency, which guarantees food security, is key in the recovery plan.
FAO's South-South cooperation projects encourage countries to share expertise, knowledge and solutions. Working together is key to creating a stronger, more resilient global agricultural sector, improving food security and livelihoods for all. To access the link to the article, click here.
Website: FAO country profile: Madagascar
Website: South-South and Triangular Cooperation
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Q: Laravel: Access images inside public folder Hi I'm totally freaked out of Laravel filesystem, I'm searching around the web for three days and I can't find away to show images in view from "storage/app/public" folder or storing images in another folder outside "storage/app/public".
I'm using Homestead on windows with Laravel 5.3. This is the "store controller" that uploads the images and saves the path in to the database.
    class ClassName extends Controller
{
public function store(Request $request)
        {
    $today = Carbon::today();  //Today
            $year = $today->year;                                         // year int(2016)
            $month = $today->month;                                        // month int(11)
            $day = $today->day;                                          // day int(5)

            //make year/month/day directory if not available then upload images to these directories sent from the form
            $path = $request->file('ProductImage')->store(public_path().'/'.$year.'/'.$month.'/'.$day);
            if ($request->file('ProductImageOne')) {
                $pathone = $request->file('ProductImageOne')->store('public'.'/'.$year.'/'.$month.'/'.$day);
            }
            else{
                $pathone = NULL;
            }

            if ($request->file('ProductImageTwo')) {
                $pathtwo = $request->file('ProductImageTwo')->store('public'.'/'.$year.'/'.$month.'/'.$day);
            }
            else{
                $pathtwo = NULL;
            }

            //store data's sent by the form
            $product = new Product;
            $product->ProductImage = $path;
            $product->ProductImageOne = $pathone;
            $product->ProductImageTwo = $pathtwo;
            $product->save();

            Session::flash('flash_message', 'Your Image is uploaded.');
            return redirect('/products/create');
    }
}

So far I don't have any Issue, the image is uploaded to the:

\storage\app\public\2016\11\8\image-name.png

But when I'm trying to show the image in the view file it won't show up.This is my controller method that sends the path to view:
public function edit($id)
    {
        //Get product from $id to edit
        $product = Product::findOrFail($id);

        //send the data above and load the edit product view (edit form)
        return view('pages.edit_product')->with('product', $product);
    }

And this is my view code where I want to show the image:
ProductImage) }}" width="45">

Returns this:

http://laravel.dev:8000/public/2016/11/6/0b7e4e3dbf6907fa1b858fa5cd0bf3ce.jpeg
And when I want to directly go to this link to the image it says:

Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.
1/1 NotFoundHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 161:

And I even did the "symbolic link" through "php artisan storage:link" which I know a little about it. it makes a blank ".storage" file in the public folder.
That's my first project with Laravel and I really loved it until I came to this issue uploading image and showing it to viewer and now I'm disappointed. Please Help

A: You need to remove public from the image url so that you have the following:
"http://laravel.dev:8000/2016/11/6/0b7e4e3dbf6907fa1b858fa5cd0bf3ce.jpeg"

So change store('public'.'/'.$year.'/'.$month.'/'.$day); to store($year.'/'.$month.'/'.$day);


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Migrations to the Gulf Countires: From Exception to Normality
18 June 2010 - 10:30am
Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Meeting Room A
The International Migration Institute, Oxford Department of International Development and the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College with the support of the Maison Francais d'Oxford All Welcome, but... Read more
The Deep Grammar of the Middle East System: What Future for Arab Nationalism?
Patrick Seale
17 June 2010 - 6:00pm
There will be a reception after the lecture
CHANCELLOR'S SEMINAR: British EU policy after the election
Chris Patten, Lord Hannay, Sir Stephen Wall
South Asia Seminar
Demographic Transitions in India and Pakistan and their Implications
Professor Inderjit Singh (National War College)
Fellows' Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St. Antony's College
Extending the EU's Single Market to its neighbours: 1992 redux?
Jonathan Scheele (St Antony's)
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road
From the medieval to the "early modern" in South Asia: Sources, concepts and methodologies
The Vitality of Taiwan
11 June 2010 - 10:30am to 12 June 2010 - 4:45pm
Foreign entry and its impact on China's banking performance: some new evidence
Xu Ying (ANU)
The Deakin Room, Founder's Building
Modern Makeovers: Imperial Identities and Subaltern Subjects
Professor Saurabh Dube (El Colegio de Mexico)
DAHRENDORF PROGRAMME PANEL DISCUSSION: Free Speech
Jeremy Waldron (New York University) and others
Dahrendorf Room
The mosque that wasn't there: Echoes of colonialism in suburban Athens
Dimitris Antoniou (St Antony's)
The Arabs and the Holocaust
Professor Gilbert Achcar
Professor Gilbert Achcar Professor of development studies and international relations at SOAS and author of The Clash of Barbarism: The Making of the New World Disorder, and Perilous Power: The... Read more
Cross-Strait Talks - What the Future Holds
Dr Chi Su
Dr Chi Su was Secretary General of the National Security Council from 2008 to 2010. He had previously served as Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council and as a non-elected member of the Legislative... Read more


A very successful Brook Green Day took place on Saturday 16th September. It is generally agreed that it was bigger and better than before. It takes a team of over 100 volunteers to plan and lay on the Fair so a huge thank you to everyone who was involved with the day: helping; baking; fetching & carrying; selling; sponsoring; face painting; clearing up and of course having fun. Thank you too to the 3500 or so persons who came this year. Fortunately, the rain just about held off, despite a few dark clouds, and it was a great community event, enjoyed by all concerned. Anyone interested in helping us next year, please do get in touch.
Many people have commented how lovely the wild flower meadow between the tennis court and the western lawn has looked over the summer months. It is pleasing that this project to improve a neglected area of Brook Green by creating a bank using surplus soil (which would otherwise have been sent to landfill) from the construction of the pavilion has proved successful. The meadow contains annual flowers only and next spring we intend to plant the bank again and to extend the flower bed along the southside of the tennis courts. Meantime our thanks go to Donatella Goretti who designed the flower meadow and who with other volunteers has tended it throughout its many stages.
LBG no longer looks like the poor relation of Brook Green. Thank you in particular to Sarah Brion (Parks Project Officer) who has overseen the improvements which include new fencing, new benches and a new path and to Ian Ross (Parks Manager) and Stefan Czeladzinski (Biodiversity and Horticultural Officer) who made this happen.
We are pleased that approval has been granted to allow the floodlights to be used until 9pm. Usage of the courts has continued to increase since their makeover in 2015 and we are grateful to local residents for their understanding in allowing us to increase playing hours in this way.
Urbanwise.London contributed to the day (2nd September) by holding an event in Luxemburg Gardens and on Brook Green. Local school groups participated in healthy eating, sports and cycling activities. They also learned about road safety and the importance of sustainable travel.
In order to undertake essential repairs Hammersmith Bridge will close to traffic from 5pm on Saturday 21st October until the early morning of Friday 27th October. The half term period has been chosen to try and ensure the least possible disruption.
Did you know that there are plans to build a new two-way superhighway (CS9)? This will run from Kensington Olympia along Hammersmith Road, across the north side of the Hammersmith gyratory, along King Street to Goldhawk Road. CS9 is a key part of the Mayor of London's Healthy Streets for London initiative – a big focus of which is to encourage more people to walk and cycle. The plan is supported by Hammersmith and Fulham Council.
To find out more and have your say, see the link below. The deadline for comments is Tuesday 31st October 2017.
Paper copies of plans and responses including copies in Braille and large text are available. Please call 0343 222 1155.
We promised an update on the Pilot Scheme aimed at monitoring air quality. Final decisions are still to be made but please watch this space.
Below are some of the concerns highlighted by residents and the responses of the new owners.
The volume of traffic around Olympia in particular lorries and vans: the new owners will be investing in underground parking in order to 'give back the streets to you'.
The PrintWorks Gym: this has been sold but the new owners of Olympia have stated that 'we will keep our eye on the activities in the hope that they actively engage with all of us. Equally, we are pleased to confirm that plans for a new gym now form part of our thinking about the estate.
Benefits to the Community: highlighting the fact that many residents live with the congestion yet never visit Olympia, the new owners have stated they 'are working very hard to create spaces for the public on the estate to create a sense of village' and are considering ideas about coffee shops, independent food, wine shops, interesting galleries etc.
I am sure you are all looking forward to the 2018 quiz which, unlike other quizzes, comprises teams from the same street/road or even block. We are planning to hold this in early February and we hope to announce the date and venue in the next newsletter. This year we had 14 tables and the joint winners were Poplar Grove and Milson Road.
On 15th April 2015, the Planning Committee of LBHammersmith & Fulham unanimously granted approval for the Friends' application to construct a Pavilion adjacent to the Playground and the tennis courts on the south side of Brook Green. The Pavilion was designed for us in response to our specification requirements by de Rosee Sa, a firm of architects, whose principals live locally. The design has been progressed over the last 3 years through several concepts and four distinct proposals. These were extensively consulted upon with feedback taken into consideration as the design evolved. A significant majority supported the Friends' proposed final design. At the meeting of the Planning Committee one Councillor noted that the Friends of Brook Green were to be congratulated for the manner in which we had taken forward this initiative.
Over the coming months the Pavilion Working Group will focus on satisfying the conditions attaching to the Planning Consent, detailed design specification, tendering and procurement of the construction works. If all proceeds to plan we would hope to start construction in the late autumn of this year.


On Monday, June 5th, 2017, my agent, Mary Keeley, retired from Books & Such Literary Management, and the agenting profession. She'd phoned to tell me of her decision several days earlier and I was at peace with it for I knew she was involved with her church, and I also knew she longed for more time with her family. I'm not always so intuitive, but months ago I suspected her focus was shifting and so had prepared myself.
Mary was my agent for five years and I treasure her tutelage. She took my hand and led me through the hoops of the publishing industry. We would have walked faster, except I'm a slow writer until the deadline approaches and then suddenly, I'm zapped with ideas that pull my story together in ways I never thought of weeks or months earlier. Mary is the exact opposite. I'm sure she wanted to send scores of emails telling me to write faster, but that's not her way. She let me work at my own pace and deadlines were met.
I think what I appreciate most is her encouragement in my writing skill. She understood my doubts, shyness, and lack of confidence, and encouraged me in so many different ways, in private and in public. Mary was in my corner and I felt it every step of the way.
Thank you, Mary, for taking me under your wing and teaching me to fly. Thank you for being my friend and mentor. Thank you for accepting me.
I wish showers of blessings on your life as you enjoy your new freedom to spend time with church and family. You are a special lady, full of class, and I'll always think of you with fondness.


The Cambridge International Primary Programme (CIPP) is an internationally recognised educational programme.
The CIPP was developed in 2005 for English, mathematics and science at primary school level. It provides curricula, tests and didactic methods for individual levels within a class. The programme displays a good degree of compatibility with local German outline curricula and helps us to ensure a high quality of teaching.
Using the CIPP enables us to provide our students with a good foundation to study or work abroad at a later stage.


Blog · Home Free TV · SAVOY HOUSE EUROPE. S.L.
Impressive change! before and after this house, renovated in the Home Free TV program on FOX. What seemed like an impossible mission has become the home of our dreams!
Competitors have faced in this episode, a house abandoned and totally destroyed also burnt and very poorly maintained. Beyond the structure no details of value appreciated that makes it worth to begin reforming. But after intense work, all the ruined space becomes a warm and cozy home filled with details.
Colors, objects, textures used, the lighting ... it is amazing how much the decor can change a space and the feelings it conveys.
We are very proud to be partners of Home Free and contribute though our lamps and light accessories in the transformation of these wonderful homes. It is a pleasure to see our collections converted into key pieces of decoration.
Television producer Relativity chose Savoy House as partner for its new program, which broadcasts on FOX in the United States. Our products will be present in the process of renovating an entire house, from the façade to the last stay.


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Human Rights Commissioner Strässer condemns the arrest of scores of lawyers in China
14.07.2015 - Press release
Christoph Strässer, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, issued the following statement yesterday (13 July) regarding the ongoing crackdown under which large numbers of lawyers have been arrested since 10 July:
"I condemn the arrest of up to 100 lawyers and staff from law firms in China. The scale of the detentions and the state media's efforts to publicly discredit the lawyers are without precedent. The Chinese Government is sending a clear message through these coordinated arrests – criticism of the system will be silenced, and even lawyers must expect severe punishment for performing their most basic duty, that of defending their clients. This crackdown is in dramatic contrast to the Chinese Government's declared intention to promote the rule of law.
I am furthermore most profoundly concerned by the fact that the new national security law has been cited in justification of the actions taken by the security authorities. Given its vague language and the broad definition of the term "national security", measures taken by the security agencies are protected by the law, without any provision being made for the independent review of such measures or any correctives thereto.
I call on the Chinese leadership to release the lawyers who have been arrested and to refrain from any further action to restrict them in the exercise of the profession and the defence of their clients. I moreover call on the Chinese Government to stand and be judged by its self-professed desire to strengthen the rule of law. The national security law in its current form is not compatible with rule‑of‑law principles. Laws that permit civil rights to be curtailed in response to threats to national security must be clearly defined and subject to independent review."
In a nationwide sweep starting on 10 July, numerous lawyers who had previously defended human rights activists in criminal cases have been arrested across China. Nothing is yet known about the whereabouts of many lawyers; it is likely that they will be charged and sentenced to long terms in prison. The security agencies have claimed their actions were taken in response to potential threats to national security. The national security law was passed by the National People's Congress on 1 July. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has already criticised the law.
12.07.2019 Press release
Statement by the Federal Foreign Office on the situation in northwest Syria
12.07.2019 Article
China: Partner, competitor, difficult counterpart
Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid


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← Josh Kline (2017) Candida Höfer (2017) → Overview Issue No. 107 / September 2017 "Identity Politics Now"
Juergen Teller's new edition for TEXTE ZUR KUNST is a self-portrait as swimmer, though we wouldn't recognize this figure as him from looking at the picture: at the centre of the shot, far from the camera and shoreline, just below the horizon, which tilts ever so slightly to the right, the artist appears as not much more than a speck within the bluish-grey expanse of sea and sky. At first glance, it may seem that he is staging his own body in a Romantic tableau.Renowned for his portraits of celebrities, Teller often poses them in peculiar or even clearly uncomfortable situations, tripping up even the most un-camera-shy. His pictures convey a distinctive intimacy, whether via the physical reactions he captures or the goose bumps and bruises he doesn't hide. Teller's photographs are affecting precisely because they convey the ostensibly unvarnished truth.The motif he chose for this work – a swimmer at sea – may recall the aesthetics of conceptualism or a trope native to painting, but Teller turns this familiar model literally around: rather than bidding farewell to the beholder and the world, he is approaching from the distance, his right arm raised above the water in mid-stroke. Teller shows himself here swimming toward the camera; putting aside irony and Romantic idealism, the protagonist in this natural scene genuinely aims, here, to meet us.
Giclée print, 25.4 × 30.5 cm, edition: 120 + 20 A.P., numbered and signed certificate, € 350.– plus shipping.
Edition of 120 + 20 A.P.


Pilsen Dérive (drift), is a generative and collective project which aims to activate a critical review of the historical and urban development of the Pilsen neighborhood, through walk journeys as main research. The project will work as a collaborative process where participants can contribute portraits and media essays that explore the development of Pilsen´s buildings. The UIC Maker Space studio at MANA will served during three months as a hub for group reviews, discussions, and artwork production.
Buildings were selected can be a participant's own house, or a particular building that they find meaningful in the neighborhood. Workshops will focus on digitally mapping Pilsen and the buildings of interest using an open source application, which feeds photo, video and sound via the Google Maps platform and open source applications. Once the buildings were selected, participants will develop the oral history profile of the building, fed by the collective memory of the neighbors, habitants, users. The collective data will be discussed in the studio, and will inform creative outputs such as a sound, video or photo essays.
Read more about the project from Mexus interview with Amanda Gutierrez.


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In front of the newly opened Great Southern Stand, with 15,000 commemorative badges handed out to kids to celebrate, Melbourne's season opened in the second week of the year for the first time ever after an opening round bye. They had endured a poor pre-season where they'd lost five of six practice and pre-season cup matches, and had also been forced to train in a St Kilda park when neither the MCG or the Junction Oval were available.
Geelong had already played, and lost, a tight encounter with Hawthorn where Gary Ablett had been held to one goal while Jason Dunstall was helping himself to 12 at the other end but the Cats still went in as favourites considering Melbourne's poor pre-season form and injury clouds surrounding Garry Lyon and Jim Stynes. In an attempt to spark his side Malcolm Blight had made them train four times during the week.
The chances of stopping Ablett for a second week in a row were slim, but John Howat managed to restrict the dangerous Cat to just 3.2 while at the other end Jakovich tormented the Geelong defenders with seven of his own. Tim McGrath had started on him, fresh from his nightmare debut with the Cats on Dunstall a week earlier, but by the nine minute mark of the second quarter Jakovich had four goals and the Cats were forced to make a move.
With Jim Stynes dominating in the centre and Jakovich running riot up from the Demons opened up a 23 point lead at quarter time and maintained it into the long break before Bill Brownless was switched to centre-half forward and Gary Ablett into the centre. The moves paid dividends and the Cats only had themselves to blame in the third term for not taking more of their opportunities.
The Cats struck back to twice take the lead early in the last quarter but couldn't hold on, and the match ended with champion Mark Bairstow sitting on the bench for the last 15 minutes of the game after being dragged by Malcolm Blight for making two critical errors. He had received a free kick in the centre of the ground but found it reversed after reacting to a slight bump from Garry Lyon. The Cats were five points in front at the time but Lyon's kick found Todd Viney who goalled and Melbourne were never headed again.
Debutant Andrew Lamprill goalled with his first kick in league football and he made it even more special by kicking it from an impossible angle off his wrong foot in the Olympic Stand pocket midway through the last quarter. It was his only possession for the day but in the context of the tight match it made all the difference.
Best were Jakovich, Obst and Wight. Greg Healy suffered a calf injury.
After the match Mark Bairstow blamed Lyon for the reversed free kick, stating that he had "taken a dive". John Northey praised his players by saying "We just stuck at it, and that's what we aimed to do, put the pressure on them like they had last week against Hawthorn."


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Sunday | 06 Mar 2016
SS16: Mikkelsen crashes out in Otates
Andreas Mikkelsen's hopes of overhauling Dani Sordo for a podium at Rally Guanajuato Mexico ended when he crashed on Saturday afternoon.
Stage info: SS15 / 16
SS15: Otates 2, 42.62km
Saturday's longest test has claimed several victims in the past. Andreas Mikkelsen rolled heavily in 2014, Jari-Matti Latvala crashed several years previously and in 2013 Sébastien Ogier stopped to allow co-driver Julien Ingrassia to open a closed gate. After a narrow, uphill start, it is mostly fast and flowing on wide roads, although there is a 5km twisty section two-thirds of the way through.
SS16: El Brinco 2, 7.15km
This stretch of road is driven twice in this direction and once the opposite way in various stages. It is fast and wide for virtually the entire distance with plenty of high-speed dips. It ends 1km earlier than in previous years, meaning the finish is located at the spectacular El Brinco jump.
The Norwegian was only 4.5sec adrift of the Spaniard when his Volkswagen Polo R went off the road about 10km from the finish of the Otates test. Neither Mikkelsen nor co-driver Anders Jaeger were hurt.
Jari-Matti Latvala continued to dominate the leaderboard in his Polo R, fastest times in Otates and El Brinco giving him an unblemished tally of six wins from six stages today.
The Finn's lead over Ogier rose to 1min 36.3sec, the world champion struggling so much in the loose gravel that he questioned whether there was a problem with his car after Otates.
"It was much more difficult than this morning. I don't know if I have a problem or not but there's no grip at the rear. It's undriveable. The lines on the road are really dirty, it's never been so bad this weekend so I have to check," he said.
That check revealed nothing untoward, the Frenchman confirming the car was 'fine' after El Brinco.
Mikkelsen's demise left Sordo in a comfortable third in his Hyundai i20, more than two minutes clear of Mads Østberg in fourth. Sordo bemoaned the lack of grip on the slippery gravel tracks while Østberg said he was 'flat out on the limit'.
Fifth-placed Hayden Paddon struggled in Otates with problems in his Hyundai i20. "I had to manage a lot of temperatures in the car. The brakes overheated then I lost the paddle-shift gearchange and had to use the manual system. In the slower sections the car was getting too hot and I lost my rhythm with everything going on," he said.
Benito Guerra reported overheating brakes in his Ford Fiesta RS while Martin Prokop was concerned about an alternator warning light in his similar car.
Head to WRC+ to see the latest onboard and video reports from Rally Guanajuato Mexico
SS14: Ogier: 'I'm not pushing anymore'
Penalty threat hangs over Mikkelsen
SS13: Latvala treble takes lead over a minute
Damaged suspension delays Paddon
SS11: Latvala stuns in Saturday opener
Latvala tears apart rivals in Saturday's first stage in Mexico